Guides @ UF: Film Studies: Useful Links

Useful Film Studies Websites

Ain't it Cool News
A website dedicated to news, rumors, and reviews of upcoming and current films and television, with an emphasis on science fiction, superhero, fantasy, horror, and action genres.
Alfred Hitchcock Scholars / 'MacGuffin' Web Site
An extension of the MacGuffin journal; serves as a comprehensive introduction to Hitchcock and his 50+ films.
Antenna
Running from 2009 to 2016, Antenna was a collectively authored media and cultural studies blog committed to a detailed analysis of texts, news, and events from across the popular culture spectrum.
Audiovisual Lexicon for Media Analysis
Organized by the University of Michigan, the project is a collection of three-minute videos that each feature an expert in cinema / media studies detailing a specific film studies term.
Black Film Research Online
A research guide that offers a comprehensive and annotated guide to the many academic, online, and general interest materials on Black cinema.
Dark Horizons
One of the world’s top sources for online entertainment news.
DocumentaryFilms.net
Provides documentary film information and resources to both viewers and filmmakers.
Film Grab
A collection of stills and screenshots from many different motion pictures.
Film Threat
An online publication that primarily focuses on independent film.
Flow
An online journal of media studies - strives to provide a critical forum where scholars, teachers, students, and the general public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media.
Forum for Movies & Mind
Studies the ways in which explorations of the mind in fields such as psychoanalysis, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, genetics, and evolution help us understand film.
Kino International
Provides access to contemporary, classic, and documentary films.
Latin American Cinema
Organized by the University of Texas at Austin, LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information - specifically, about cinema, from, in, or about Latin America.
Museum of the Moving Image
A gateway to the online resources related to film, television, and digital media.
Realscreen
An international magazine devoted exclusively to providing news about documentaries.
RogerEbert.com
A destination for movie criticism, commentary, and community; also has a glossary of the site's namesake's reviews.
ScreenSite
ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film and media studies; it is designed for educators and students in mind.
Transformative Works and Cultures
An international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles about transformative works, articles about media studies, and articles about the fan community.
UF Film and Media Studies
The University of Florida website for the Film and Media Studies concentration.
Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research
The Feature Film Database includes 3,000 American and international feature-length films in the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research (WCFTR) Collection.
Women Make Movies
A leading distributor of independent films by and about women; WMM amplifies historically ignored voices and challenges the mainstream media.
Worldwide Box Office
Historical listings from 1900 to the present.
Yale Film Analysis
This guide was designed for those who wish to familiarize themselves with the vocabulary of film studies and the techniques of cinema.
[in]Transition
An open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal that is dedicated to film and media studies.

Film Studies Associations and Institutions

American Film Institute
An American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media: Research Reports
The Institute compiles reports on industry topics related to gender disparity both on screen and behind the camera.
Online Film Critics Society
"Dedicated to educating, uplifting, and celebrating the art of filmmaking and the critics who write about it."
Society for Visual Anthropology
The SVA is a section of the American Anthropological Association that promotes the study of visual representation and media. SVA members are involved in all aspects of production, dissemination, and analysis of visual forms, including film and video.
University Film and Video Association
UFVA supports various aspects of making and teaching of film and video through an annual conference, the publication of the Journal of Film and Video, and maintaining their website with association information and news.
Visual Resources Association
A multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to furthering the research of media management within the commercial, cultural heritage, and educational environments.